University of Southern California
School of International Relations

Dr. Carol Wise

Associate Professor
School of International Relations
Von KleinSmid Center, 328
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0043
(213) 740-2138
cwise@usc.edu

Published Books

  • Requiem or Revival? The Promise of North American Integration, co-edited with Isabel Studer. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2007.
  • Reinventing the State: Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. (Spanish edition published in 2003 by the Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru).
  • Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse, co-edited with Riordan Roett. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2003. (Spanish edition published in 2004 by Nuevo Hacer Press, Buenos Aires).
  • Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America, co-edited with Riordan Roett. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000. (Spanish edition published in 2001 by Nuevo Hacer Press, Buenos Aires; Portuguese edition published as a special issue of the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Spring 2001).
  • The Post-NAFTA Political Economy: Mexico and the Western Hemisphere, edited by Carol Wise. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

Books in Progress:

  • Twenty Years After: The Politics of Economic Transformation in Mexico (with Manuel Pastor).
  • Structural Shift: China and the Twilight of North American Regionalism.

Journal Articles

  • "China's Surge in Latin American Markets: Policy Challenges and Responses" (with Cintia Quiliconi). Politics and Policy 1 (2007): 410-438.
  • "The Lost Sexenio: Vicente Fox and the New Politics of Economic Reform in Mexico" (with Manuel Pastor). Latin American Politics and Society 4 (2005): 135-160.
  • "The Political Impact of NAFTA on Mexico: Reflections on the Political Economy of Democratization" (with Max Cameron). Canadian Journal of Political Science 2 (2004): 301-323.
  • "Argentina: From Poster Child to Basket Case" (with Manuel Pastor). Foreign Affairs (November-December 2001): 60-72.
  • "Latin American Trade Strategy at Century's End." Business and Politics 2 (1999): 2-46.
  • "The Politics of Second Generation Reform" (with Manuel Pastor). Journal of Democracy 10 (1999): 34-48.
  • "Stabilization and Its Discontents: Argentina's Economic Restructuring in the 1990's" (with Manuel Pastor). World Development 3 (1999): 477-503.
  • "Liberalization and Ethnic Conflict in Latin America" (with Alison Brysk). Studies in Comparative International Development 2 (1997): 76-104.
  • "State Policy, Distribution, and Neoliberal Reform in Mexico" (with Manuel Pastor). Journal of Latin American Studies 2 (1997): 419-456.
  • "The Origins and Sustainability of Mexico's Free Trade Policy" (with Manuel Pastor). International Organization 3 (1994): 459-489.
  • "The Politics of Peruvian Economic Reform: Overcoming the Legacies of State-led Development." Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 1 (1994): 75-125.
  • "Peruvian Economic Policy in the 1980's: From Orthodoxy to Heterodoxy and Back (with Manuel Pastor). Latin American Research Review 2 (1992): 83-117.
  • "The Regional Implications of Public Investment in Peru" (with Patricia A. Wilson). Latin American Research Review 2 (1986): 93-116.

Chapters in Edited Collections

  • "U.S. Competitive Liberalization Strategy and Canada's Policy Options." In Canada Among Nations, edited by Jean Daudelin and Daniel Schwanen. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, forthcoming.
  • "Peru." In Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere, edited by Sidney Weintraub. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2007.
  • "Against the Odds: The Paradoxes of Economic Recovery under Fujimori." In The Fujimori Legacy, edited by Julio Carrion. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.
  • "Negotiating the FTAA between the Main Players: The U.S. and MERCOSUR" (with Fernando Masi). In MERCOSUR and the Creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, edited by Marcel Vaillant and Fernando Lorenzo. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, 2005.
  • "The Free Trade Area of the Americas: Trade Preferences as the Art of the Possible." In Regionalism and Transregionalism in the Americas, edited by Vinod Aggarwal and Ralph Espach. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004.
  • "A Long View on Mexico's Political Economy: What's Changed? What are the Challenges?" (with Manuel Pastor). In Mexican Politics and Society in Transition, edited by Andrew Selee and Joseph Tulchin Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, 2003.
  • "U.S.-Andean Trade and Investment Relations: Policy Issues and Choices." In The Andean Community and the United States: Trade and Investment Relations in the 1990s, edited by Miguel Rodriguez, Patricia Correa, and Barbara Kotschwar. Washington, DC: Organization of American States, Inter-American Dialogue, and Andean Development Corporation, 1998.
  • "Trading Places: U.S. Latinos and Trade Liberalization in the Americas" (with Manuel Pastor). In Borderless Borders: The Impact of Globalization on the Latino Economy , edited by Rebecca Morales and Frank Bonilla. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
  • "State Policy and Social Conflict in Peru." In The Peruvian Labyrinth, edited by Maxwell Cameron and Philip Mauceri. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
  • "Democratization, Crisis, and the APRA's Modernization Project in Peru." In Debt and Democracy in Latin America, edited by Barbara Stallings and Robert Kaufman. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1989.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • 2006/07 Future Fuels & Energy Initiative, USC Provost's Office, "Transitioning to a New Energy Fuel Paradigm: The Development, Adaptation, and Export of Natural Gas from the Andean Region."
  • 2006/07 Faculty Fellowship, John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation of Los Angeles, "China, Mexico, & Competition for the U.S. Market: Los Angeles as a Commercial Hub."
  • 2006/07 Faculty Fellowship Research Grant, Earhart Foundation (Ann Arbor, Michigan), "China's Growing Economic Presence in North America: Risks, Opportunities, & Strategic Options."
  • 2006 Senior Fulbright Specialist, Beirut, Lebanon. Six weeks of collaboration with the College of Letters and Arts at Lebanon American University, toward the goal of introducing a teaching and research module on Latin American Studies.
  • 2006 Public Policy Scholar, North American Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC.
  • 2005 Carleton University Fulbright Chair in North American Studies, Ottawa, Canada
  • 2005 Fulbright-Hays Senior Fulbright Faculty Award, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
  • 2004/05 James H. Zumberge USC Faculty Research & Innovation Fund Award
  • 2003/04 Faculty Development Award, College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences, USC.
  • 2003/04 Faculty Grant, Center for International Studies, USC, for a project entitled "Continental Divide: Distributional Rigidities in the New North American Bloc."
  • 2002 Faculty Research Grant, Government of Canada, for a book-length project on "Skills, Distribution, and the New Continental Divide in North America."
  • 2001 Bellagio Center Fellow-in-Residence, Rockefeller Foundation Villa, Lake Como, Italy. Project: "Twenty Years After: The Politics of Economic Transformation in Mexico."
  • May 1999 Rockefeller Foundation Faculty Fellow, University of Cape Town, Centre for African Studies, South Africa. Support for lecturing on development challenges for the emerging market countries, including those of Africa.
  • 1999/2001 Faculty Enrichment Grant, Canadian Embassy of Washington, DC. Funding to conduct fieldwork research in Canada and to develop a new course at Johns Hopkins-SAIS on "The Political Economy of the North American Bloc," which gives equal weight to Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.
  • 1996/98 Senior Adjunct Research Fellowship, North-South Center, University of Miami.
  • 1996/98 Fellowship for Studies in International Economic Conflict, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, DC.
  • 1994 Guest Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC.
  • 1992/93 Post-Doctoral grants from: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Program in Peace and International Cooperation; John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation; North-South Center at the University of Miami; Heinz Endowment at the University of Pittsburgh; and the Fletcher-Jones Foundation.
  • 1988 Assistant Faculty Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. One year in residence spent writing the dissertation and participating in the Institute's ongoing research program.
  • 1987 Dissertation research support from: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in Peace, Conflict, and Security; Institute for the Study of World Politics; Organization of American States; Ploughshares Award.
  • 1984 Pre-doctoral Summer Fellow, Inter-American Foundation, La Paz, Bolivia.
  • 1983 Columbia University President's Fellow (three-year award).
  • 1982 Fulbright-Hays Master's Research Grant, Lima, Peru.

EDUCATION

  • B.A. Sociology, University of California, 1974
  • Master's of Public Administration, Columbia University, 1982
  • Master of Philosophy, Political Science, Columbia University, 1986
  • Ph.D. Political Science, Columbia University, 1991